Collyer Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Collyer Downtown Historic District is a 2 acres (0.81 ha) historic district in Collyer, Kansas, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Collyer Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Trego County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Area along Ainslie Ave., roughly bounded by 2nd St. on the N. and 4th St. on the S., Collyer, 67631
When was it listed? January 2010
Category. building
Township. Collyer township
National Register reference number. 09001207 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Collyer Downtown Historic District between 2016 and 2020, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
6 February 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Gove County	2017009
29 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kansas Forest Service	016-057
14 October 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Trego County

Storms near this property

60 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collyer, the town this property stands in, in 80 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 57 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2025	Hail	Collyer	-	A social media report of 1 inch hail.
July 2025	Hail	Collyer	-	Quarter size hail was reported by the public.
September 2024	Flash Flood	Collyer	-	From 8 miles south of Collyer, social media reports of multiple roads flooded including 4 feet of water over the Trego County road O near the Trego/Gove County line road.
September 2024	Hail	Collyer	-	Social media reports included multiple pictures of 2-2.25 inch hail stones.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 to 70 MPH.
June 2018	Heavy Rain	Collyer	-	Rainfall of 4.26 inches was measured.
May 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Collyer	-	This tornado was video taped by a web tower cam but it passed through an area with no trees, fences or buildings.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	Winds were estimated to be 60 MPH.
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Collyer	-	The tornado moved out of Gove county and then the tornado turned north as it occluded but never did strike anything to damage.
June 2008	Hail	Collyer	-	Windows were broken by the large hail.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	Vinyl siding was ripped off the home. All windows on the west side of the house were broken by the high wind.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Collyer	-	This tornado did not encounter anything to damage.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	Three inch diameter tree branches broken.
September 2006	Heavy Rain	Collyer	-	5.00" of rain fell.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	A semi truck was blown over on Interstate 70...near exit 120.
April 2005	Tornado (F0)	Collyer	-	This was small rope-like tornado.
June 2005	Tornado (F0)	Collyer	-	This tornado did not hit anything.
June 2005	Hail	Collyer	-	This was the second occurrence of golf ball size hail at this location.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	Three inch limbs broken.
March 2024	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
April 2010	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Collyer	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Collyer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trego County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	St. Michael School & Convent	0.6 miles	2008
	Lipp Barn	1.3 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09001207 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Trego County	All 7 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.